Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.

urine testifies that the kidneys are at fault, and they can be cor- rected, also the diet and habits arc corrected, the assimilation and disassimilation all rendered efficient in their respective offices, and the patient wears flannel and woollen clothing, the rheumatism is cured. The more speedy and effectual throwing off a fresh attack of rheumatism, whether in the bones or muscles, is very greatly facilitated by baths of soft warm water and a plenty of soap. The water should be quite blood warm, but never over 95° Fahrenheit. The air of the bathing room should invariably lie warmer than the water of the bath, and the patient should exist day and night in a very uniform temperature. Dr. Fuller, of St. George's Hospital, in his work on Rheuma- tism, Rheumatic Gout, and Sciatica, page 456, says, if the sciatic nerve is the part implicated in the real rheumatisms! pain, he orders the whole affected limb to be encased in flannel that is thickly sprinkled with sulphur. This flannel is kept in place by means of a bandage, and the whole limb thus bandaged is covered with oiled silk, or rubber cloth, which has the effect not only to increase the warmth of the limb and confine the vapor of the sulphur, but it also obviates the disagreeable odor. The bandage and flannel should be kept on day and night. Here, doubtless, is an old galvanic remedy, which Dr. O'Con- nor has brought up anew as valuable in given cases of rheuma- tism. To be effective, so that good results may follow the ex- ternal use of sulphur, the flannel and bandaging should not be removed until after several days — say three or four at least. Where the case is attended with feverishness and with very acute pain, experienced even when the limb is at rest, no relief results from its use; nor is there any good from it when the skin is dry and inactive, for, in such cases, the sulphur remains unabsorbed and without curative action. But, he says, where there are no symptoms of active disease, when the pain is of a dull, aching- character, and is felt chiefly, if not solely, when the limb is in motion,—and more especially when the skin acts freely, and the sulphur is absorbed rapidly, so as to require re- newing every third or fourth day, — then nothing is more ser-